Richard Wilson: Deep End

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Text by Paul Schimmel and Richard Wilson. Forward by Andrea Rose.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Richard Wilson, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 16, 1994 – January 8, 1995.

The site-specific installations of the British sculptor transform architectural spaces in order to force viewers to re-examine their immediate surroundings. For MOCA he installed 20:50, in which an exhibition space is filled with motor oil, and was also commissioned to create a new work, Deep End.

A Cattalina III fiberglass swimming pool shell was suspended upside-down from a 60’ pipe inside MOCA’s subterranean gallery. The pipe ran up to a pyramidal skylight in the ceiling of the gallery and out into the street, funneling sound back into the gallery. The swimming pool, although structurally unaltered, was perforated with a series of strategically placed.

MOCA & The British Council, 1994
Softcover, 32 pages
10 x 7 inches

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